Neel Nanda quips he hopes the mech interp spike beats the takeover-the-world spike
NeelNanda5 · x · 2026-10-06
DeepMind interpretability researcher Neel Nanda traded quips with @tszzl, hoping the "mech interp spike" outpaces the "take over the world spike" — a one-liner that captures the field's real anxiety about whether interpretability progress can keep up with capability growth.
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